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Monday, 18 July 2016

LAZEEZ MURGH TIKKA MASALA

I have been very lazy in experimenting main course meals lately. In earlier days of marriage I used to try every single way to impress my husband and cook for him. A once experimented dish hardly was repeated especially during dinners and I used to keep experimenting new ones. As kids came into our lives, my schedule gradually got hectic and so the time I spent to cook.

Usually these days when I decide chicken for our menu, I cook up regular easy version of chicken curry and do not take the trouble to browse through Internets. After a long while I felt the urge to cook something different and I happened to stumble over this recipe of Sanjeev Kapoor's. I tried it the same day and it turned out to be delicious with all the richness and spice loaded cream based thick gravy. It is perfect to go with rotis and obviously rice was not the perfect combo, as I made rice as I was in short of time to prepare roti before hubby arrived. I felt the khoya in this recipe added richness to the gravy and prepared khoya just for the gravy as per the instructions given by a chef in one of the youtube videos. Click here to find out how. Not saying much, lets hop over to the recipe.Ingredients:For Murgh (chicken) tikka:

Boneless chicken cut into cubes- 400-500 gms

Ginger garlic paste- 2 tsp

Kashmiri chilli powder- 2 tsp

Garam masala powder- 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder- 1/4 trsp

Salt- to taste

Lime juice- half lime

Yoghurt- 2 tbsp

Oil- 3 tbsp

For Gravy:

Oil- 5 tbsp

Cumin seeds- 1 tsp

Onion- 1, cut into cubes

Tomatoes- deseeded, Cut into cubes

Capsicum- 1 medium sized, cut into cubes

Onion- 2 chopped

Ginger garlic paste- 1 tbsp

Tomatoes - 2

Kashmiri chilli powder- 2 tbsp

Garam masala powder- 1/2 tbsp

Kasoori methi- 1/2 tsp

Cardamom powder- 1/4 tsp

Khoya, grated - 1/4 cup

Cream- 2 tbsp

Honey-2 tsp

Method:

Marinate chicken pieces in the given ingredients except oil and let it sit for atleast half an hour.

Then heat a skillet with oil and fry the pieces till cooked well. I closed the lid so that chicken gets cooked well inside too.